What are the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese medicine sweating?

Childbirth is a big test in life for every woman. Some women go through the gates of hell when giving birth. Childbirth has a great impact on women's physical health, so they usually need to restore their health through confinement. Modern women pay more and more attention to their physical health. Usually after giving birth, they regulate their bodies by sweating. Many people believe that this will prevent them from suffering from confinement diseases.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese medicine sweating?

Benefits of postpartum sweating: When women give birth, their muscles and bones are opened inside and out, the body's positive energy is insufficient, and the resistance is reduced. External evils such as wind, cold, heat and dampness will take the opportunity to invade the body. During the recovery period of confinement, the muscles and bones gradually close, allowing the wind and cold to be trapped in the body and difficult to expel. After a full month, high-temperature sweating can promote blood circulation, activate metabolism, clean the pores, stretch the body, and expel dampness and cold from the body.

Sweating after childbirth can make the skin on the whole body rosy and the pores dilated, which can achieve the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispelling wind and dampness, dredging wind and cold, warming the meridians, and quickly blocking the pathogenesis of the disease. It has a good effect on postpartum diseases (postpartum headache, back pain, joint pain all over the body, muscle soreness, lump, numbness, pain, chills and many other symptoms).

Disadvantages of postpartum sweating: Excessive sweating after childbirth can cause loss of body fluids, which can easily lead to various diseases such as abnormal urination, difficulty in defecation and insufficient milk secretion. Especially in the hot summer, forced sweating after childbirth can easily cause collapse, heatstroke, and even life-threatening.

What are the precautions for postpartum sweating?

1. You should not sweat if you are too hungry or too full, during menstruation, have high or low blood pressure, diabetes, or heart disease.

2. Do not go out immediately after sweating, take a rest for a while.

3. You cannot take a shower within 6 hours after sweating, and you cannot touch cold water or eat cold fruits.

Sweating after childbirth has both advantages and disadvantages. If you want to sweat, you must stick to one principle, which is to ensure your own health. There are many things that need to be paid attention to when sweating after childbirth, and I hope you can master them, because only in this way can the mother recover her health as soon as possible, restore her physical strength, and take better care of the baby.